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Outsourcing the Problem: Consumption, Climate and China

Help us reveal an untold scandal: how the West exports carbon emissions to countries like China - expecting them to pay for the impact of our consumption. We need an engaging animation to explain the problem - for which we'll provide research, a voiceover from George Monbiot, and promotion from ChinaDialogue. The animation will inform the public, inspire campaigners and give us a tool to lobby government to take responsibility.

Sounds a great project! This needs wider media exposal. If you take our outsourced emissions into account it makes a mockery of the government's claim that the UK's emissions have gone down over the last few years. It's like saying we're slimming because we've reduced our doughnut production here, while still importing loads more doughnuts from abroad and getting royally obese on them.

This is particularly prescient as the changes to the CRC (as part of the CSR) could mean the outsourcing of data centres from the UK, since the removal of the recycling payment mechanism in the CRC adds 10% to data centre energy costs: